Greetings.
I'm sure you're aware of the intense conflict going on around the Hypertension Mod. They have been accused of making a parody of Blood by some rather prominent folks in the Blood community. Clari87, Hypertension's team leader has been thoroughly denounced by the Postmortem community in some extreme language. I would like to gather your thoughts here on this issue. It has critical baring on the community of people who call themselves Bloodites.
First off I would like to reveal my own bias in the matter as to foster open discussion.
I frequent the Postmortem and have on and off for a number of years. took an early interest in hypertension due to it's upbeat outlook and highly motivated team members. I have stated in the past that the idea of new characters, game play and enemies was a good one and I made several suggestions in many a blood2 and blood3 thread. I may not have liked some of Hypertension's ideas but my criticism along such lines was kept at a low level because I saw tremendous potential in TDG mods if not Hypertension itself. The various team members all seemed friendly enough. They did not shirk off suggestions about working with Kurt Fuhr.
Of late I've seen that hypertension would make radical game play changes to the Blood formula and some rather intense character changes to Caleb as well. While I hope Clari87 changes the mod I will state here and now she has a right to do what ever she sees fit. The recent all out battles that have been waged have been costly and extremely emotional. No doubt feelings have hardened to such an extent that any suggested change to something more blood like would be treated as some sort of attack against the Hypertension team's work or there rights to do so.
I'm now against the Hypertension mod as it now stands. My task here is to ask the Transfusion team to consider publicly stating that Hypertension should not be allowed to use any resources that are contained in the Transfusion project. I know this would involve statements by specific individuals who actually created the work, I also know that Hypertension has prior permission to use some of Transfusions resources. Make no mistake, this is a highly symbolic act and has no real power to stop the Hypertension team. I know that some may feel as though you've been mistreated in the past by members of the Postmortem, including myself.
I hope you can see that past any feelings you might have towards particular individuals and actually examine the arguments both for and against Hypertension.
Here's a link to Hypertension for those who want to examine it for your selves.
http://tdgmods.blogspot.com/

title: caleb poster.
^^^An older concept drawing of Caleb no longer used.
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